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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  31-Mar-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 104A3,4 Au1
Name MEZIADIN, DELNORTE, PORTER, BULLION, BULLDOG, DEL NORTE, HARDPAN CREEK Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P093
Status Showing NTS Map 103P14W
Latitude 055º 59' 53'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 28' 01'' Northing 6205962
Easting 470876
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Meziadin showing is located near the headwaters of Del Norte Creek approximately 75 kilometres east of Stewart. The area was initially explored prior to 1913, again in 1922 and in 1938-39.

The area is underlain by siltstone, greywacke, sandstone, calcarenite, argillite, conglomerate and minor limestone of the Middle-Upper Jurassic Bowser Lake Group. The showing comprises a fissured and partly silicified zone, 0.4 to 0.9 metre wide, in argillite. Along the footwall, a layer of quartz is interbanded with argillite. The quartz is locally copper stained (inferred to be malachite) and contains pyrite, galena and sphalerite with high values in gold and silver reported. Two other zones occur in the vicinity, 0.9 to 6.1 metres wide. These strike northwest, dip vertically and locally contain small, silicified sections which contain small patches of sphalerite and chalcopyrite.

A 1.46 metre sample from one of these two other zones, assayed 4.8 grams per tonne gold, 27.4 grams per tonne silver, 1.6 per cent copper, 1.6 per cent zinc and nil lead (Mandy, 1939 in Special Report 3). This was the best assay result from the program, most samples contained only trace gold and silver.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 21535, 22103, 30156, 37072, 39285
EMPR AR 1922-77; 1939-67
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
EMPR PF (Geological Map and Assay Plan, Meziadin Group, 1939)
EMPR SPEC RPT *3 - Mandy, J.T. (1939)
GSC MAP 307A; 1385A
GSC MEM *32, pp. 75,175
GSC OF 864; 2931
GCNL #160, 1991
Mastalerz, K., Walus, A. (2020-03-31): National Instrument 43-101 F-1 Technical Report on Del Norte Property

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